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Old 05-12-2014, 06:20 PM
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I wonder if it's your fish that keep propagating the outbreaks. It's not generally pallitable to fish but if they do snack on it or your inverts do and it passes through their digestive tracts without being completely digested then you've got a nice starter colony being pooped on your freshly thawed live rock.
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Old 05-12-2014, 07:41 PM
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I wonder if it's your fish that keep propagating the outbreaks. It's not generally pallitable to fish but if they do snack on it or your inverts do and it passes through their digestive tracts without being completely digested then you've got a nice starter colony being pooped on your freshly thawed live rock.
I hadn't thought about that. It's very possible that that's how it's been happening.

I'm pretty optimistic that after this round I'll have annihilated it. The fish are the only ones with contaminated sand or rock with them now and at that I checked each piece that is in the quarantine tank for strands of this stuff and any that were present I just threw the whole rock out.

That said, anybody know how long it would take to go through a fish's digestive system? My largest fish is a foxface.
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